I do have a couple of old Dell P3 box with intel graphics but have not used it in ages but I prefer using one of my 3dfx cards for those (any chance of getting KMS for my 4500 pci?)
-luis On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl>wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is there anybody still using a machine with the first generation Intel > integrated graphics chipsets? > > The reason I'm asking is that there is no KMS support for these > chipsets. On top of that the xf86-vide-intel code only provides XAA > acceleration, and that's been ripped out from the Xserver. So I'm not > convinced the driver works anymore. And even if it does, the driver > might not have any added value. You might actually be better off > using the xf86-video-vesa driver, as the shadowfb "acceleration" seems > to be somewhat broken in the xf86-video-intel driver, at least for the > newer chipsets. > > The "legacy" part of the xf86-video-intel driver is the last user of > the AGP interfaces that the kernel provides to userland. So dropping > support for these old chipsets completely would allow us to remove > those interfaces from the kernel, which has some (security) benefits. > > Cheers, > > Mark > >
